Japan Disaster Aftermath

On March 12, 2011, a day after a massive tsunami tore through northeastern coastal communities, residents surveyed the devastation that has laid waste to whole sections of Japan after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake that set off one of the greatest disasters in the country's history. CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO VIEW FULL SIZE, START SLIDE SHOW.

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Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors buried under rubble along a slope of a hill ... AP / YOMIURI SHIMBUN

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People walk a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, three ... AP / YOMIURI SHIM

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Members of the Japanese Defense Force remove the body of a victim of last week's tsunami from what remains of ... INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE